It’s the latest violent video to shock the country, setting off a fiery new debate about what it means to do the right thing.... Read full article

A single mother in the Army refused orders to go to Afghanistan, saying she had no one to care for her 10 month-old son while overseas. Should single parents be deployed to combat zones?... Read full article

We saved the whales and brought back the bald eagle. But are we pandering to pandas, instead of letting them go extinct?... Read full article

With too-few organs available for too many patients, is it time to pay organ donors for selling their valuable body parts legally on the open market?... Read full article

Is faking it—by airbrushing and lip synching—some inverse new form of responsibility?... Read full article

A 21-year-old college student was attacked outside a bar and fell to the ground, hitting his head. He died ten days later. He had no wife, no children, and no fiancé. Should he now become a father?... Read full article

With an estimated 50 million blogs thriving or wavering on the Web, some recent headlines signal changes in the blogosphere: Blog and Beware…Blogger Jailed… Blogger Signs Off With Apology. Do bloggers need to be regulated to be responsible?... Read full article

The book is a classic. The movie was a blockbuster. But are we ready for scientists to clone a real-life Jurassic Park? Significant genomic accomplishments in the past year have increased the possibility, but is cloning the extinct responsible?... Read full article

One by one, people have been supposedly sorry for brazen bonuses, Ponzi ploys, steroid secrets, bloodying their girlfriends, and other assorted blunders of judgment. But does apologizing now mean you never have to accept responsibility?... Read full article

If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution about personal responsibility, you might have asked yourself, “Who can I help?” But would you ever ask, “Who can I sue?” That question is the focus of WhoCanISue.com, an online service that matches potential clients with lawyers, while begging a different question: does the site’s blunt come-on irresponsibly encourage more lawsuits?... Read full article